Craigslist to De-list Erotic Services

Craigslist, the omnipresent Internet personal sales and services site, is taking down its Erotic

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark

Services listings, following a spate of killings of men and women who had responded to Craigslist ads, reports the Minneapolis City Pages. The last of the present Erotic Services ads will expire in one week. Craigslist will create a new online entity called Adult Services, according to CBS News.

Craigslist suffered a public-relations black eye following the murders, along with mounting

allegations by state attorneys general that its Erotic Services comprised an

out of control Internet brothel, although not all victims connected with Craiglist had met their killers through Erotic Services. In 2007 Donna Jou, a 19-year-old

Rancho Santa Margarita woman, died in West Los Angeles during a date with a man she met on Craigslist. (See L.A. Weekly story.)